John Kromer, who owns the liquor store, said a witness told him two vehicles were parked outside the Freedom Valu Center gas station across the street. The occupants from both vehicles had exchanged words. One of the vehicles drove across the road and into the liquor store parking lot. The second vehicle, described as a tan Cadillac with chrome rims, followed, fired several shots into the parked vehicle and then fled, the witness said.

"It's the first incident we've had, and we've been here for 36 years," Kromer said.

The stored opened at 9 a.m. Sunday, and several cars and witnesses were in the parking lot when the shooting took place, Kromer said. The parking lot isn't a place were people usually linger, he said.

Police said about 10 shots were fired.

Eagan police spotted the what they believed was the Cadillac and followed it to the Hampton Inn in Bloomington.

Scanner reports said police watched two males from the Cadillac enter the hotel carrying a white bag. When they came back out, they no longer had it.

The two men were apprehended and taken into custody by Bloomington Police, who are holding them for the Hudson Police Department.

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At Regions Hospital Sunday night, one of the shooting victims, a 23-year-old man, left his hospital room in his gown, socks and with a big white cloth swathed over his chest, to try to find out information about the young woman who had been shot who was still in surgery. In the elevator on the way up to the surgery waiting room, the man, who refused to give his name, said the third victim, also a man, was "fine" and had been released from the hospital.

"I just got shot in the shoulder," the man said. "They are keeping me to do an MRI."

"I told him he's lucky to be alive," said the man's brother, Sullivan Hersi. "Usually you get shot in the shoulder, it's a lot worse, it's really bad. You are lucky."

In the surgery waiting room, family members of the woman said they'd been told she was going to survive but that she was still in surgery.

Scanner reports indicated the woman had been shot in the abdomen.

Bloomington police referred all questions to Hudson police, who did not return calls Sunday night. Police recovered the white bag, which they said contained ammunition, although they didn't find a gun, according to the scanner reports.

Hersi said he is studying law enforcement and said he was disappointed at the violence in the Somali community. "We come here to work and have a nice life to escape a war. I don't want to see anyone in this community shot. Not my brother. Not anybody. I don't want to see anyone in any community shot."

It seems like there is a shooting every month in the Somali community, Hersi said.

"The community needs to step up. I don't know what's going on, but suddenly -- today -- it became personal."

A press release Sunday night said police were interviewing the victims.

However, the man who was shot said he didn't understand why he had to go into the police station for questioning.

"There are a lot of shootings of Somalis and no arrests," Hersi said. "They already have the evidence they need, the car and the shells."

Hudson police had taken the Cadillac as part of its investigation.

The Hudson Police Department requested Bloomington police hold the suspects. Bloomington police said Sunday night that they were referring all calls to Hudson Police Department because it was their case.